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I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

Gillian Flynn

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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
Author
Film Critic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Critic
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.
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To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
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To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
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